id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34455 Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia .txt text/plain 111920 6632 74 abolished the old Council, and turned the colony over to a Governor who, Virginia House of Burgesses declared: "The rights of the subjects are so Council, and the colony of Virginia assembled together."[26] Governor to hold a general election of Burgesses, summon an Assembly, Governor Culpeper that the King, in 1680, gave orders that the Council Virginia the same men who, as members of the Upper House of Assembly, Assembly passed a law "that the Governor shall not lay any taxes or Colony of Virginia." To defend the proceedings against the late King was place to the Governor." Then followed the election of a new Council. Burgess, a member of the Council, had commanded the Virginia forces in right by the laws of Virginia," wrote Governor Spotswood several years murders, felonies." The laws of Virginia made the Governor and Council contention between the Governors of Virginia and the Council and ./cache/34455.txt ./txt/34455.txt